CHEEZ 2
Opening Wed. March
16 6:00 to 9:00pm
Running March 15-
April 3, 2016
Fiona Smyth’s CHEEZ was originally a monthly
comic/drawing published in Canada's Exclaim Magazine over a ten year period
from 1992 to 2002. There were no editorial restrictions on the work apart from
the monthly deadline and the colour restrictions of the paper (the art work had
to be black and white). Each strip was created shortly before the deadline and
numbered in chronological order. The second incarnation of CHEEZ, running
online since 2009 to currently, is a weekly offering continuing with the same
numbering sequence and restrictive palette.
Visual artist Smyth’s creative process is unrestrained in
the CHEEZ series. Recurring motifs and icons inform a non-linear narrative that
spans nearly twenty-four years. Feminist imaginings of female bodies are
central to this drawing world. Smyth’s stream of conscious approach connects to
a long lineage of drawers, cartoonists, and imaginers like Moebius, Giles, Gary
Panter, Saul Steinberg, George Grosz, John Scott, Frida Kahlo, and Louise
Bourgeois.
A collection of the first one hundred strips was
published as CHEEZ 100 by Pedlar Press in 2001
Gallery 50 is offering the sale of individual inkjet
prints of the exhibited CHEEZ drawings upon request.
50 Gladstone Avenue
Open Wed. to Sun. 1:00-5:00
